A Treatise on Divine Providence
Stephen Charnock
Public DomainPuritans
Chapters 116
- Front matter ≈ 14 min
- 1. His knowledge: Job. 34:21, 'For his eyes are upon all the ways of ≈ 3 min
- 2. His providence. ≈ 3 min
- 1. The immediateness of it; 'his eyes,' his own eyes, not another's. Not ≈ 2 min
- 2. Quickness and speed of providence; 'run.' His eyes do not only ≈ 2 min
- 3. Extent of providence; 'the whole earth;' all things in the earth, all ≈ 2 min
- 4. Diligence of providence; 'to and fro.' His care is repeated, he looks ≈ 4 min
- 1. God hath an indisputable and peculiar right to the government of ≈ 3 min
- 2. God only is qualified for the universal government of the world. All ≈ 5 min
- 3. There can be no reason rendered why God should not actually ≈ 6 min
- 4. Therefore, God doth actually preserve and govern the world; ≈ 3 min
- 1. Nothing is acted in the world without God's knowledge. The vision ≈ 3 min
- 2. Nothing is acted in the world without the will of God. His will ≈ 3 min
- 3. Nothing doth subsist without God's care and power. His eyes ≈ 18 min
- 2. Providence extends to all the actions and motions of the creature. ≈ 16 min
- 1. His ways are above human methods. Dark providences are often ≈ 3 min
- 2. His ends are of a higher strain than the aims of men. Who would ≈ 3 min
- 3. God hath several ends in the same action. Jacob is oppressed with ≈ 3 min
- 4. God has more remote ends than short-sighted souls are able to ≈ 3 min
- 1. By small means. The considerable actions in the world have ≈ 9 min
- 2. By contrary means. God by his providence makes contrary things ≈ 3 min
- 3. Casual means. The viper which leapt upon Paul's hand out of the ≈ 3 min
- 1. By the restraints upon the passions of men. The waves of the sea, ≈ 3 min
- 2. By the sudden changes which are made upon the spirits of men for ≈ 3 min
- 3. In causing enemies to do things for others which are contrary to all ≈ 3 min
- 4. In infatuating the counsels of men. God sets a stamp of folly upon ≈ 3 min
- 5. In making the counsels of men subservient to the very ends they ≈ 3 min
- 6. In making the fancies of men subservient to their own ruin. God ≈ 3 min
- 1. It is certain God hath a hand about all the sinful actions in the ≈ 6 min
- 2. In all God's acts about sin there is no stain to God's holiness.* In ≈ 32 min
- 1. It is not well with bad men here. ≈ 6 min
- 2. Neither is it bad here with good men, if all be well considered. ≈ 25 min
- 1. The evil of denying providence. ≈ 3 min
- 2. The grounds of the denial of it by the heathen, which we shall find ≈ 3 min
- 3. The various ways wherein men practically deny providence. ≈ 3 min
- 1. The evil of denying it. ≈ 12 min
- 2. The second thing is, the grounds of the denial of providence. This ≈ 10 min
- 3. The third thing is, the various ways wherein men practically deny ≈ 54 min
- 1. Man is a special object of providence. God provides for all ≈ 3 min
- 2. Holy men a more special object of it. God preserves and provides ≈ 3 min
- 3. Hence it will follow that the spirits of good men have sufficient ≈ 3 min
- 4. Hence follows a certain security against a good man's want. If God ≈ 9 min
- 1. Seek everything you need at the hands of God. It is not only the ≈ 4 min
- 2. Trust providence. To trust God when our warehouses and bags are ≈ 17 min
- 3. Submit to providence. It is God's right to govern the world, and ≈ 3 min
- 4. Murmur not at providence. Though we do not clearly resist it, if ≈ 7 min
- 5. Study providence. It is a part of atheism not to think the acts of ≈ 13 min
- 6. Ascribe the glory of every providence to God. Abraham's steward ≈ 7 min
- 1. God certainly in all his actions has some end; that is without ≈ 3 min
- 2. That certainly is God's end which his heart is most set upon, and ≈ 3 min
- 1. That it is so de facto, and hath been so. ≈ 3 min
- 2. That according to the state of things, and God's economy, it must ≈ 3 min
- 3. The improvement of it, by way of use. ≈ 2 min
- 1. That all providence is for the good of the church de facto, and has ≈ 58 min
- 1. Sin. ≈ 3 min
- 2. Commotions in the world. There is the eye of God, that eye which ≈ 3 min
- 3. Destroying judgments, yea, and the very curses sometimes are ≈ 3 min
- 4. Divisions in the church. One would think this of all other things ≈ 3 min
- 5. Persecutions. These naturally tend to the dissolution and utter ≈ 3 min
- 1. To the improvement of the church. One of the sorest judgments ≈ 3 min
- 2. In the increase of the church. The Jews crucified our Saviour to ≈ 3 min
- 1. In the increase of it within its own bounds. When the Israelites ≈ 3 min
- 2. In the increase of it in other parts. Paul's prison made his ≈ 7 min
- 8. The Spirit of God loves the very mention of their names, he ≈ 7 min
- 5. God has given the choicest things he hath to his people; he hath ≈ 3 min
- 1. All the providence of God is for the glorifying his grace in Christ. ≈ 11 min
- 2. God hath given the power of the providential administration of ≈ 17 min
- 3. Thirdly, God in the church discovers the glory of all his attributes. ≈ 3 min
- 4. Fourthly, There is a peculiar relation of God and Christ to the ≈ 4 min
- 1. God hath a peculiar love to this very relation, and often mentions it ≈ 3 min
- 2. This relation is prevalent with God in the highest emergencies and ≈ 3 min
- 5. Fifthly, The whole interest of God in the world lies in his church ≈ 7 min
- 6. It cannot be but all the providences of God shall work to the good ≈ 10 min
- 7. Seventhly, The presence of God in his church will make all ≈ 3 min
- 8. Eighthly, The prayers of the church have a mighty force with God ≈ 9 min
- 1. God will always have a church in the world, he will have some to ≈ 3 min
- 2. God will in the greatest exigencies find out means for the ≈ 3 min
- 3. The church shall in the end prove victorious against all its ≈ 3 min
- 4. The interest of nations is to bear a respect to the church, and ≈ 3 min
- 5. We may see hence the ground of most of the judgments in the ≈ 3 min
- 6. What esteem, then, should there be of the godly in the world? The ≈ 7 min
- 7. It is then a very foolish thing for any to contend against the welfare ≈ 6 min
- 1. It is comfort in duties and special services. Nothing shall be ≈ 3 min
- 2. In meanness and lowness. It is one and the same God that rules ≈ 3 min
- 3. In the greatest judgments upon others. In an epidemical judgment ≈ 3 min
- 4. In the greatest extremities wherein his people may be, there are ≈ 4 min
- 5. In fear of wants. The power of the government of the world cannot ≈ 3 min
- 6. It is comfort in the low estate of the church at any time. God's eye ≈ 3 min
- 1. It is indeed God's usual method to leave the church to extremity ≈ 7 min
- 1. God glorifies his power. His eyes run to and fro to shew himself ≈ 3 min
- 2. God glorifies his wisdom. 'His eyes run to and fro throughout the ≈ 3 min
- 3. God glorifies his care and compassion. When his people are ≈ 3 min
- 4. God glorifies his righteousness and justice. There is a measure of ≈ 3 min
- 1. It being a season to improve and know their interest. Men do not ≈ 3 min
- 2. As a season for acting faith at present, and an encouragement of ≈ 7 min
- 3. In fitting them by the extremity for a holy reception of the mercy ≈ 3 min
- 4. In securing them against future straits. For God's disappointing ≈ 10 min
- 1. Will you fear man, who have a God to secure you? The church ≈ 3 min
- 2. Will you fear men, who have a God to watch over their motions? ≈ 3 min
- 3. Will you fear men or devils, who have a God to restrain them? ≈ 3 min
- 4. Will you fear them who have a God to ruin them? Though the ≈ 3 min
- 2. Then censure not God in his dark providences. As we are often too ≈ 3 min
- 1. Therefore, first fix this in your minds, that God is righteous, wise, ≈ 3 min
- 2. Distinguish between preparations to the main work and the ≈ 3 min
- 3. Fix not your eye only upon the sensible operations of providence, ≈ 3 min
- 4. Consider not only one single act of providence, but the whole ≈ 10 min
- 1. This will help us in our inquiries in present providences. ≈ 3 min
- 2. It will support our faith. The reason of our diffidence of God in the ≈ 3 min
- 3. It will enliven our prayer. ≈ 3 min
- 4. It will prevent much sin. ≈ 3 min
- 1. All the godly formerly did act faith on a less foundation. The godly ≈ 3 min
- 2. It is your only way to have mercy for the church, and for ourselves. ≈ 3 min
- 1. Wait upon him obedientially. ≈ 3 min
- 2. Wait patiently. How often are our spirits troubled about future ≈ 4 min
- 3. Wait constantly. Though the wheels of providence seem ≈ 3 min
- 4. Wait in the use of lawful means for preservation. Not to use ≈ 11 min
| Author | Stephen Charnock |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Era | 1600s |
| Categories | Puritans · Christian Classics |
| Length | 116 chapters · ≈ 11 h 40 min read |
| Formats | Web Book · PDF |
| Status | Public Domain |
Public Domain.
